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Transcript Thoko Moyo: The video of the brutal killing at the end of May of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has pushed America to another major inflection point in a seemingly endless struggle with race. Hundreds of thousands of Americans and others around the world have taken to the streets to decry police violence, racism, and to demand change. America has a history of systemic racism, which goes back 400 years, and the cycle of injustice, protest, riots, inadequate reaction and response has come around many times in the US since the 60s. So can this be a moment of actual change? Or is it just too hard to end racism and police violence in America? Well, to help us answer those questions. I m joined by Harvard Kennedy School professors, Khalil Muhammad and Erica Chenoweth. ....
The Pizzagate gunman is out of prison. Conspiracy theories are out of control. Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post Feb. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Comet neon sign adorns the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Northwest Washington.Washington Post photo by Michael S. Williamson. SALISBURY, N.C. - He slipped out of bed before sunrise and started driving, spurred by the conspiracy theory he would soon help make famous. As he sped the 350 miles from his hometown in North Carolina to the nation s capital, Edgar Maddison Welch tilted his cellphone camera toward himself and pressed record. I can t let you grow up in a world that s so corrupt by evil, he told the two young daughters he had left sleeping back in Salisbury, without at least standing up for you and for other children just like you. ....
Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading. They went viral anyway. Craig Timberg, The Washington Post Feb. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Dr. Li-Meng Yan s assertion that China created the coronavirus in a lab in Wuhan was quickly challenged by major scientific journals.Photo for The Washington Post by Jackie Molloy f Scientists from Johns Hopkins, Columbia and other leading American universities moved with rare speed when a Chinese virologist, Li-Meng Yan, published an explosive paper in September claiming that China had created the deadly coronavirus in a research lab. The paper, the American scientists concluded, was deeply flawed. And a new online journal from MIT Press - created specifically to vet claims related to covid-19 - reported Yan s claims were at times baseless and are not supported by the data just 10 days after she posted them. ....